Containing anxieties in institutions or creating anxiety in institutions: a critique of the Menzies Lyth hypothesis

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Isabel Menzies Lyth contended that the organization of institutions such as hospitals is constructed so as to defend the employees of the institutions from their own psychotic anxieties. The author argues that hospitals promote alienation and anxiety because they have been organized in the interests of its owners and managers.

Hospitals, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners, Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Nurses, Analysis, Anxiety, Alienation (Philosophy), Alienation, Alienation (Social psychology)

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Videogame cybersubjects, the ethics of violence and addiction: A psychoanalytic approach

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The videogame cybersubjects and the myths surrounding video game addiction and violence due to the new forms of interactive media are discussed. Psychotic, obsessive and hysterical are three psychic structures that are developed with a view to better understand why moral panic takes place in cyber games.

Game, Toy, and Children's Vehicle Manufacturing, Games, toys, and children's vehicles, Electronic Games, Video games, Gamers

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A psychoanalytic approach to education: "problem" children and Bick's idea of skin formation

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The psychodynamic analysis of children with poor academic performance is carried out. A psychoanalytic approach is necessary to understand the problems of such children and to help them.

Academic achievement, Psychoanalysis, Underachievers

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